The roar of the ocean’s many waters
South Africa’s Constitution begins with a bold statement: “We, the people of South Africa, Recognise the injustices of our past …”
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
The Sons of Africa in World War I
Interview with Fred Khumalo, author of a novel about the sinking of the SS Mendi, a warship carrying hundreds of black South African soldiers.
Ghana’s President and what the West wants to hear
Many social media users have construed Akufo-Addo’s words in the President of France’s presence, as somehow radical.
Reading Frantz Fanon
The glut of books on Fanon serve as a guide for reading him through the challenges of our present. But they also reveal the extent to which reading Fanon today is not such a straightforward operation.
Musical chairs in Angola
Angola’s new president may still chart his own political course against party directives and the interests of the Dos Santos family.
The U.S., Uganda, and the War on Terror
The United States’ support for “strong man rule” in Africa, if President Yoweri Museveni’s recipe for longevity in Uganda.
Why do so many Western Leftists defend Robert Mugabe?
Mugabe was a neoliberal stooge up until the 2000s and far from being a Pan-Africanist hero sent his army to intervene in the most rapacious war in Africa’s history in the Congo.
Thomas Sankara Boulevard
Plus the great novelist Sarah Ladipo Manyika has put together a list of the best books of the Mugabe years.
Reassessing Angola’s ‘Implacable Exonerator’
After 38 years of Angola’s dictatorship of the elders, President João Lourenço has raised hopes that power might be more responsive to Angolans’ everyday needs.
Whose awareness is raised on World AIDS Day?
AIDS interventions are often funded from afar and fail to realize the people they’re trying to assist have opinions on AIDS interventions.
The uncertain future for transitional justice in Zimbabwe
Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe’s newly inaugurated President, suggests that Zimbabwe is "witnessing the beginning of a new and unfolding democracy".
Discours de Ouaga
Should Africans care for French President Emmanuel Macron’s “Africa Speech” in Ouagadougou?
Coups and phalluses
The moral of Grace Mugabe of Zimbabwe: While men continue to share the spoils of their misrule, it seems there must always be a harlot who can be brought to heel.
The slave auction in Libya
Racism and discrimination are central to the social and cultural hierarchy in the Maghreb. Libya is no exception.
The new Old Man in Zimbabwe
From the perspective of the past, there is little evidence to invest much hope in the “successful transition” trope still reverberating in the international media about Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe Coup Music Edition
Ten post-independence, pre-coup struggle songs that critiqued ZANU-PF under Mugabe and imagined a leadership change and different political culture.
Empire and Ambivalence
Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s perturbing review of Maya Jasanoff’s travelogue of going up the Congo River as she’s accompanied by Joseph Conrad’s novel, ‘Heart of Darkness.”
The Incredible Hulk
What has Angola’s President João Lourenço, dubbed the “implacable exonerator,” been up to?
Paul Biya Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Biya did not conceive the system by which he rules Cameroon, but deserves as much credit for the modifications that have enabled his reign.
Mugabe was no revolutionary. He was obsessed with power and control
In the four decades that Robert Mugabe was at the helm of power in post-colonial Zimbabwe, his rule was anything but admirable.